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Bee-Killer Assassin Bug

Apiomerus flaviventris

Description:

Brightly colored Assassin Bug, also called a Bee-Killer Assassin Bug, about 2 cm long. Family Reduviidae.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Bee Killer Assassin Bug
Apiomerus flaviventris Apiomerus flaviventris? - Apiomerus flaviventris - BugGuide.Net


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2 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Thank you bayucca. :) I wish I had noticed the belly. If I see it again, I'll look.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Reduviidae, Harpactorinae, Apiomerus sp. and looks like being Apiomerus flaviventris. Did you remember a yellow belly??
http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/field...
http://thingsbiological.files.wordpress....
http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-i...

LaurenZarate
Spotted by
LaurenZarate

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico

Spotted on Aug 20, 2013
Submitted on Nov 4, 2013

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